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Usually I really feel about model crossovers the identical means I really feel about poutine. Gravy and chips are each great issues when eaten individually, however mix them and you find yourself with a soggy mush that loses all sense of texture. However I am keen to present Dave the Diver’s newest Like a Dragon DLC crossover a move, as a result of the story behind it’s actually reasonably candy. The newest DLC for Mintrocket’s wildly profitable aquatic journey brings Like a Dragon’s Ichiban and a number of other different characters and minigames from the collection into Dave the Diver.
I will stomach flop into the main points shortly. However I used to be primarily struck by the phrases of Jaeho Hwang, Dave the Diver’s director, when introducing the DLC on the PlayStation weblog. “As a few of chances are you’ll already know, I’ve usually cited the Like a Dragon collection as one among my biggest gaming inspirations,” he writes. “From the unique 2005 launch to the newest RPG iterations, I’ve been captivated by the wealthy character growth and genre-defying gameplay. It’s been a dream of mine to ask these iconic characters into Dave’s world, and now, that dream is turning into a actuality.”
Now, taken by itself, this might all be interpreted as superficial advertising and marketing bluster. However a cursory Google introduced up a LinkedIn submit wherein Hwang discusses assembly Like a Dragon’s head honcho Masayoshi Yokoyama. Hwang writes that he “screamed like a Okay-pop fanboy” when he noticed Yokoyama and “received his autograph on the dialogue e-book of the very first sport I’ve stored since 2005.” He additionally reiterates that Like a Dragon is “one of many greatest” inspirations for Dave the Diver. So I believe it is truthful to say his enthusiasm is legit.
In brief, it is all reasonably healthful as model crossovers go. The Like a Dragon DLC sees Ichiban and the Bartender from the Survive Bar taking a break on the Blue Gap, once they come upon a “sinister plot” that entails a dolphin-poaching syndicate, which our trusty Dave helps them unravel. The DLC provides a beat ’em up type infiltration mission the place Ichiban and an ex-arms seller known as Cobra infiltrate the poachers’ hideout, whereas you may as well “cheer together with Ichiban’s unforgettable karaoke performances” and rent numerous different Like a Dragon characters to work in your restaurant as workers.
Ichiban will arrive in Dave the Diver’s restaurant sooner or later in April. This is not the primary time Dave has crossed paths with different online game characters. Dave himself turned up in Balatro final yr, whereas earlier than that some spooky cultists from Dredge paid a shock go to to the Blue Gap. But even with out all this model based mostly gubbins, Dave the Diver continues to be a superb time, with Chris Livingston calling it “the most important shock of 2023 and hands-down my favourite sport of the yr thus far” in his overview.
